“If I may be painfully blunt, I never got along with my mother - I had a terrible relationship with her ever since I was a child and we drove each other up the wall. She was impossible to please and her approval was impossible to get - everything I did seemed to make her angry. She hated practically everything I did and was never satisfied. There was no mutual trust, no mutual respect.
It took us such a long time to learn how to have a civil relationship as an adult and if I may be blunt, I will never feel close to her, she will never understand me and I think it’s just way too late to try to foster anything more than a superficial, polite relationship as we spent my formative years so distant and not understanding each other. It sounds really cold of me to say that, but that’s the uncensored truth. Not everyone has happy childhood memories of getting along with their parents but few of us dare to talk about it publicly - here’s a song from my childhood that really captured that feeling of frustration I had with my mother as a child.”
